Let's Get Out of This Terrible Sandwich Shop

What started as Chicago's premiere one-man-band-with-people now forges ahead as a band-with-people. Driven by farfisa, guitar, scary comedy, minimalist percussion, and female harmonies. Smart ass beach pop for ghouls, ghosts.



All albums available for download on iTunes.



Critic's Choice in the Chicago Reader:



Let’s Get Out of This Terrible Sandwich Shop Local goof-pop combo Let’s Get Out of This Terrible Sandwich Shop are finally garnering some attention for their music and not just their awesomely terrible/terribly awesome name. LGOOTTSS was the solo project of Los Shut Up drummer-songwriter Tony Mendoza until LSU bandmate Joanna Buese (bass, vocals, and “kazoogle”) and guitarist-vocalist Thea Lux joined up in 2005, followed by jack-of-all-trades Tom Vale the next year. (A forlorn-looking cat is credited as a fifth member.) The individual Sandwich Shops have long been involved with various comedy troupes, which definitely shows. “You’re gonna meet / My fucken family / Here they come / Here they fucking come,” Mendoza sings in “My Fucken Family,” off the band’s full-length debut, Listening (Roydale). Other tunes, like the bouncy, Farfisa-driven “Henry and the Horse” (about Henry Ford’s equine travails), show off their singularly skewed hooks and shambling, unself-conscious eclecticism. —J. Niimi



Due to the economy, the Sandwich Shop closed its doors permanently in August of 2009, after 5 years, 4 records, and 3 comparisons to They Might Be Giants. It was a fun run, but it was also very terrible. Thanks to everyone who enjoyed this band.